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Iraq, Syria and jihadism
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The world economy
Weaker than it looks (7)
Educational reform
Viva la revolución (10)

■Letters
On Ukraine, Scotland, South Korea, Hungary, Syria, Oliver Wendell Holmes, addresses
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■Briefing
Marriage equality in America
So far, so fast (4)
Gay people’s rights
Tainting love (2)

■United States
The race for the Senate: Colorado
High, tolerant and Republican? (1)
The ground game
Expanding the universe
Michigan’s Senate race
Of ballots and bail-outs (1)
Leon Panetta’s memoirs
The stings of Leon (8)
Wedding insurance
Prenuptial protection (1)
Religious liberty
Beards behind bars
Lexington
The Ebola alarmists (99)
Ward Award

■The Americas
Brazil’s presidential race
Restarting the rollercoaster (8)
Bolivia’s election
Happily Evo after
Bello
Divide and bribe (2)

■Essay
The future of the book
From papyrus to pixels

■Asia
The Koreas
Till Kimdom come (3)
Chinese Indians
Kings no more (2)
Vietnam and the United States
Past as prologue (1)
Mongolia
The pits (2)
Japan’s feeble opposition
Not ready for prime time (2)

■China
Hong Kong protests
The waiting game (64)
Shanghai’s Free Trade Zone
Li who will not be obeyed (6)
Banyan
The spoiled brats of democracy (9)

■Middle East and Africa
The Middle East fragments
The rule of the gunman (2)
The politics of Lebanon
The state that didn’t fail—yet
Turkey and Syria
While Kobane burns (58)
Jewish migration
Next year in Berlin (13)
Mozambique’s elections
Boom and ballot (1)
Charcoal and terrorism in Somalia
A charred harvest

■Europe
Italy and reform
Renzi revisited
Ebola in Spain
Europe’s first victim (2)
French jihadists
Self-service (1)
Ukraine at war
Fight club (33)
Belgium’s new government
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Bulgaria’s election
Borisov is back
Charlemagne
Bulldozing on (10)

■Britain
Education reform
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Human rights and Europe
Playing to the right Britain Only
The Liberal Democrats
They shall overcome Britain Only
Psychotherapy
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Bagehot
The remnants of a foreign policy (1)
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■International
Telemedicine
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Education and religion
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■Business
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Which MBA?, 2014 (11)
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Unsustainable energy (1)
Oil firms in Kazakhstan
Cash all gone (1)
Technology firms
Split today, merge tomorrow
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Friends in high places (4)
Europe’s carmakers
Polishing up
Schumpeter
Beware the angry birds (4)

■Finance and economics
Currencies
Buck to the future (5)
Investor-state dispute settlement
The arbitration game (6)
Regulating big American insurers
Questionable claims
Buttonwood
Work until you drop (4)
Luxembourg as a financial centre
Administering instead of hiding (1)
Sovereign defaults
Empty vaults (1)
The world’s biggest economies
China’s back (6)
Greece’s shadow economy
The treasures of darkness (3)
Winding down failing banks
Armageddon delayed
Free exchange
Unproductive production (1)

■Science and technology
Global health
A new challenge (2)
Prosthetic limbs
Once more, with feeling
The 2014 Nobel science prizes
Blue’s brothers

■Books and arts
Fondation Louis Vuitton
Winged victory
Fiction: Jamaica gangs
Gang stories
Tennessee Williams
Making Tenn out of Tom
A memoir of gratification
Desire delayed

■Obituary
Obituary: Baby Doc Duvalier
Like father, like son (4)

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